Quiet

Fabulous wishes to you as the year 2022 begins! I wonder what were the best moments and qualities of your holiday time? What was it that filled your inner-resource cup the most? Maybe an absence of busy-ness? Space away from the noise? I am interested in this. What happens when we clear the noise away and be in the Quiet?

This holiday season I stayed home and had my two adult-children, their friends, and all five of Stephen’s children along with other friends and family. We all talked, laughed, played music, card games, and swam in the river. As fabulously magical this was, at times I needed to withdraw from all the music and laughter; my nervous system needed a rest. I spent time alone in the garage working with clay, pinch-potting my way to a softer version of me again willing to participate in the group fully. I spent a night alone in the hills, just me, my tent and nature all around. I returned with ease in my bones, slower, and stronger.

My summer break was a deep dive into the healing qualities of the Quiet. Now the masses have gone and I have my brother staying. Last night he commented on how quiet it is around here. He always has music, radio, often with chit-chat going on over the top of those, both at work and home. Here, he is listening to the birds, watching the water, walking alongside the river. He is liking it. What is it he is liking about the quiet?

In the quiet the nervous system gets the chance to reset. Covid level 4 lockdown gave us a taste of what it is like to live in a lower vibration, cars stopped, work slowed, people walked, children played with parents in their yards. Generally, introverts found time to re-charge, extroverts got a bit frustrated and then, if they persisted and found acceptance, they too often discovered more creativity and ideas flowed in.

When we explore the quiet, the body gets time to notice what’s going on within. We grow to notice more sensations. We hear more messages, and when our pleasure modes get going, we expand our somatic and erotic vocabulary. Our relationship with the self improves. We have more conversations with the self, wonder more about the world, and this can feed our social and intimate relationships too.

I wonder, what is your relationship with the quiet? How do you feel in it? Safe, secure, scared, anxious, sad, lonely, refilled, nurtured, nervous, calm, gentle, … ?

I invite you now to take three breaths into the quiet, wherever you are reading this, make the exhale longer than the inhale and notice the sensations inside your body. I would love to hear how this quiet feels for you.

And one last thing … if you had access to land that embodied this quiet and were supported into deep embodiment practices would you want to explore there?

With quiet magical wishes to you,

Sonia.